Ocean City, MD crime: up or down?
Newest FBI monthly report: Jul 2026
These months run 36% below the same months in past years. A drop that size is usually reports not sent yet or a new records system counting differently, so Crime Radar won't call it a real drop until more months come in.
Missing or partial reports to the FBI: Feb 2023, Nov 2023, Jan 2024 – Feb 2024, Dec 2024 – Mar 2025, Nov 2025 – Feb 2026. Those months are left out of every comparison.
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The same months in past years
- 2022448
- 2023329
- 2024323
- 2025329
- 2026229
Is Ocean City safe?
Crime Radar doesn't grade towns as safe or unsafe: one number can't say what a street is like, and the FBI warns against ranking places. What these reports can say is whether Ocean City has more or fewer reported crimes than it usually does, and that its yearly rate is 126.0 per 1,000 residents against 21.1 across Maryland. For one block, open it on the map.
How this works
Ocean City Police Department sends monthly counts of violent and property crime to the FBI. Crime Radar compares the newest complete three months with the same months in past years, and only calls a change when it's bigger than this department's usual ups and downs. Months with missing reports are left out, so a reporting gap never looks like a safe stretch. These are totals for everywhere the department patrols, not one street.
Not every crime reaches these numbers: in the national victim survey, about 6 in 10 serious violent crimes and 3 in 10 property crimes were reported to police in 2024 (BJS).